Party

[pale forge]

Plug-n-play 3D GPU particle system which can override and extend the native GM system.

Github:
https://github.com/Fanatrick/GMParty

GMC:
https://forum.gamemaker.io/index.php?threads/gmparty-modern-3d-particle-system-open-source.103875/

[magic lichen]

In 3d, view matrix needs to be reapplied after GMPartySolver calls
should provide some convenience functions for this

also i love the name

[regal prawn]

Excuse my wording, but, holy shit, this fucks

I've been excited for a modernized particle solution ever since they confirmed it years ago in a Q&A

this rules

[kind delta]

I’ve been using snidrs spart, and the only thing that spart is missing is being able to modify the xscale and yscale of a particle sprite

Does this have that?

(Also, how modifiable is it? I’d realistically want to edit it all to work natively with my models, without needing to execute a bunch of functions in my model loader)

[kind delta]

Ah yeah, looking into the code looks like it does

[pale forge]

Absolutely. You think it would be enough if it just reapplied the top of the stack if some flag was set to true?

also i love the name
lore-accurate am I right? :>

[pale forge]

Thanks, happy to contribute!

[pale forge]

Decent I'd say, could be better in a couple of ways - a bit early to say. It's fairly easy to set up or define custom behavior, but it's rough around the edges and will improve a lot once I receive more feedback.

Bless your soul if you wander into the shader part of it though. It's currently not setup to use xpanda, so a big chunk of shader code is repeated mess. I'm hoping we get a native solution/alternative soon™.

[pale forge]

Did some work on 3d distance fields and effectors, docs and examples shouldn't take much longer 👀
("tree.vbuff" DF slices, side-view)

[dire walrus]

Cool!!! so much particle goodness lately 🌟🌟

[magic lichen]

man i need a wee

[regal prawn]

holy fucking shit

[pale forge]

Done with 3d model colliders, ended up writing an external lib which seeds the buffer for JFA.
(gif: 1m particles + rotating palmtree collider effector)

I've also made a quick 3d example which is a part of 0.8.3 release:
https://github.com/Fanatrick/GMParty/releases/tag/0.8.3

[pale forge]

Models can now be used as emitters

[regal prawn]

it's pissing all over the camera!!

[drowsy plover]

Omg, that's amazing!

[glacial junco]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67h8GyNgEmA

[pale forge]

Texture emitters

[kind delta]

Holy based

[carmine nest]

It's been 2 and a half years but I do believe the current build (0.9.0?) is crashing because of sprite name string to asset conversions, I got it working by just getting the asset a different way but wondering about this, still up to date?